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2 chars with the exact same ign/rollback duped IGNs

I thought I'd share this discovery because I don't discover much.

I have realized something very messed up. Due to the recent rollback, something weird happened to IGNS that were deleted and remade, but rolledback.

Let me explain.

So on Jan 26 or 27, I decided to make a couple of canonneers as mules. I had the perfect igns for them which I had held for a long time over different accounts and different worlds. So I deleted the chars with the IGNs, then remade on my mule account. Then Nexon rolledback to Tuesday. All my characters went back to their original places, the mules were deleted (I made them all in Windia then they returned to random worlds they were in like IGN1 went back to Scania, etc.).
I had exams and stuff so I didn't wanna remake everything again. Like 3 days later, I went to remake them. The main ign I had was "merchs" so I deleted that, 10 secs later, I tried to remake it on my mule account and it did not work. I tried another ign, but it did work. Which was very weird. I googled the ign to see if anyone else had it, and someone else did. They were selling it...

I got real depressed cause it was a "slap in the face" ign to whoever copied my ign "rnerch" and made "rnerchs" (with RN) cause they could've just used merchs without the "RN". I also didn't know how they got the ign because I had it and deleted it for like 10 secs. Then I got over it, I was like yeah whatever.
Few days later, I decided to remake the mules. I got curious as to what the rollback did. So instead of deleting the chars with the igns, I just made a character with the exact same ign. AND IT WORKED. Now I have TWO characters with the same ign. EXACT same ign: rnediafire. They are in different worlds because I used a world with character space (obv not my main world windia) for the original ign-hogging char. So if anyone has two comps and wants proof (cause SS proves nothing since its 2 accounts), just tell me cause I have rnediafire in Khaini and Windia. If the original IGN was in Windia, I could be on both at the same time...
But what's weird is that when I track myself, I have to spell it with different capitilizations for it to work.

But yeah, that rollback messed up a lot. I lost the ign "merchs" which someone is selling for a lot of $$. And I thought maybe I saw it wrong on my own account, but I had the ign for over a year. I've seen it a couple of times. I even looked at it, wrote it down on a sticky note for "possible mule igns", retyped it while remaking it, and looked at it another time when trying to remake it. Nexon made me lose a valuable ign... I thought I had it, but the moment I deleted it, I no longer had the "dupe"/original of it.

Basically, IGNs got duped during the big rollback. If the original before the rollback is deleted, then only one can exist. If it isn't, that IGN is up for grabs which means two people can have the same ign.